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The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.
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Firpi concluded that Saenz should receive dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, an intensive therapy originally developed for self-harming women with borderline personality disorder that is now also used to treat PTSD, eating disorders and substance use.
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Early autumn brings calm water, regional wine events and a slower pace built for long lakeside lunches.
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Fox also unloaded its regional cable sports networks — a savvy move before that business cratered.
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This can even affect nonstandard English speakers or people who speak a variety of English that differs from the mainstream varieties privileged in courts and schools.
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Narrow bathrooms, round or unusual plumbing configurations may require nonstandard shower and tub configurations.
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Its name refers to the colloquial term once used for Papaya—paw-paw.
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The Solons name refers to an ancient Greek lawmaker, whose name later became a colloquial term for wise legislators, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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And yet Webster’s dictionary, and his earlier attempts at spelling reform, expressed a radical desire to forge an entirely new tongue based in the vernacular genius of the aspiring American people.
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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“Dialectal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialectal. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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